Paper accepted at 8th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2015)

Even I'm not attending, I appear in the  PoEM 2015 promotional video

Towards an OSS Adoption Business Impact Assessment

Lucía Méndez Tapia, Lidia López, Claudia P. Ayala, María Carmela Annosi

Abstract. Nowadays, the adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) by organizations is becoming a strategic need in a wide variety of application areas.  Organizations adopt OSS in very diverse ways. The way in which they adopt OSS affects and shapes their businesses. Therefore, knowing the impact of different OSS adoption strategies in the context of an organization may help improving the processes undertaken inside this organization and ultimately pave the road to strategic moves. However, there is a lack of support for assessing the impact of the OSS adoption over the business of the adopter organizations. Based on the goal-oriented characterization of some OSS adoption strategies, in this paper, we propose a preliminary approach to assess the business impact of the OSS adoption strategies over the adopter organizations. The proposal is based on the Business Model Canvas and graph theory notions to support the elicitation and assessment of the impact of each goal over the adopter organization.  We illustrate the application of the approach in the context of a telecommunications company. 

Me at the International Conference on Conceptuall Modelling (ER 2015)

This is the only proof I was there, a picture in the Vasa Museum, where the Gala Dinner was held.

Well, and my presentation....

Aligning Business Goals and Risks in OSS Adoption from GESSI UPC

Attending OSCON 2015 held in Amsterdam

RISCOSS (https://github.com/RISCOSS) 

as exhibitor in the OSCON 2015 held in Amsterdam (BOOTH #2) 

What Does Open Source Mean to You? You can find out what it means for me in ....

Chair del WER 2016 (CIbSE)

Soy chair, mejor dicho co-chair junto a Eduardo Almentero (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro), de la 19a edicion del Workshop en Ingenieria de Requisitos (WER 2016), que tendrá lugar dentro de la XIX Conferncia Iberoamericana de Ingenieria del Software (CIbSE 2016).

CIbSE 2016 tendrá lugar del 27 al 29 de abril en Quito (Ecuador)

Xavi presented our paper in the International i* Workshop (iStar 2015)

Using Roles for OSS Adoption Strategy Models

Dolors Costal, Lidia López, Xavier Franch

Abstract. Increasing adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) in information system engineering has led to the emergence of different OSS adoption strategies that affect and shape organizations’ business models. OSS adoption strategies can be operationalized by i* models describing the consequences of choosing each strategy. When an organization decides to adopt an OSS component, it becomes a part of the OSS ecosystem around this component. Therefore, OSS adoption strategy models need to be structured in the way to explicitly describe the role of the adopter organization within the OSS ecosystem, which may be quite different depending on the level of compromise that the organization prefers. Making visible the roles played by the different agents involved in the OSS ecosystem, the involvement of the organization in the OSS community arises naturally. This paper includes a set of roles that emerge in an OSS ecosystem and their responsibilities, and describes the issues behind the fact of using the i* role and plays constructs.